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Brocli 🥲🥦

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Trying to buy new clothes and it's the banana gif except the reason I don't know what basic items cost is because I haven't bought anything new in years unless it was a gift for someone else. It's a t-shirt, Michael. What could it cost?

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The day job is taking up more hours than it's worth. I need to reassess how many hours it takes me to get paid, and get more efficient about that. #selfemployed

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As of today, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, Vox Media only has 30 days to negotiate a new contract with the Vox Media Union before our current one expires.

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Neuro appointment! Wish me luck! 💖 #hospital

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The 2024 World Blitz & Rapid took place in New York, and I was afraid it might happen there again in 2025, because as a trans woman I would not be allowed to travel or compete in the USA. Thankfully, it takes place in Qatar, where trans people are merely jailed without trial.

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Disappointed and frankly angered to find out that ECF Grassroots money has been used to found a new congress... on the same weekend as an existing local event. Not sure how this helps. #chess

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Nascar was made up as a goof to mess with Europeans, I swear

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I'm fine not getting the job due to my own ineptitude. When it's someone else's? That rankles.

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Just wasted my time writing a job application to find that it's now closed, and I had no way of knowing. Ironically, the problem wouldn't have occurred if the person currently in-role was better at it.

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Very tired. Thought this was a volcano.

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As all #chess players know, the threat is greater than the execution. This is why, the next time I am an arbiter at a FIDE event, I will be carrying a scanner wand. And a Super Soaker. #chesspunks

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Wonderful views walking up to #RhylChessCongress My first experience of Welsh chess has been a delight. #WCU #chesspunks

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Breakfast doesn't start until 8 and I can't find my mouse so gaming is out of the question. Guess I'll play chess?

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Sometimes I kid myself into feeling successful because I'm on a Business Trip, and then other times I'm in my hotel room buttering bread with the back of a spoon wishing I was at home where I have a full kitchen with all of the food groups and utensils in it

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Wow futurism.com/spotify-accu... Wonder how long till instagram cracks this. And YouTube. And Reddit. And twitter. Probably mood music is low hanging fruit for ai.

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Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Time for work. Oh no.

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I love peanuts. They should figure out a version of them that doesn’t kill or potentially hospitalize every 100th person.

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Nearly all of Polygon was laid off last week after Vox sold the company. Donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...

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I've been on bluesky five minutes and I have already read all possible pope jokes

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Crossing the border into Wales tomorrow for my first "international" chess tournament.

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In the snail racing, storm clouds gather overhead. Do our players decide to switch to an Intermediate cabbage-on-a-stick? Or do they hang on for another lap on the slick cabbage in the hope the Safety Snail comes out? #ttrpg #dnd

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It's part of the anti-cheating measures. Do we really have to combat illegal use of AI with... more AI? Am I just being a Luddite?

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Entering PGNs is this frustrating, time-consuming thing that feels like a waste of an arbiter's time and focus but when a colleague suggested handing it over to ChatGPT, I pretended not to hear. "But how does it know how to do it?" another colleague asked. There was no answer.

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🎮 Retro games shaped generations. But many are vanishing. Some, like educational games by Yaakov Kirschen, who died on April 14, were almost lost forever. Journalist @kirkman.bsky.social explains why preserving niche software matters: blog.archive.org/2025/05/07/v... 🕳️ #VanishingCulture

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On my way to play GM Keith Arkell in a friendly. Wish me luck.

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Manchester Metrolink staff member just told someone to put their bicycle in the wheelchair space. Hope nobody needs that.

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Okay but why is this Ellen DeGeneres?

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I feel like I need an alt so that I can be feral online but that's how it starts

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Getting laid off is really starting to sink in and bum me out today — Friday was my first day of being unemployed, but I had previously taken that day off, lol — so to make myself feel better, I and my wife donated to the layoff fund. It's at 84%... help out if you can!

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Quickly follow all these people before they disappear

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If you're doing a reference, and the question asks how much time someone took off sick in the last 6 months, the answer is "Not Applicable".

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Me: trying to keep cool This furry idiot: fuck you

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Can't get to work because the tram was cancelled with no warning. Too hot for this.

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